Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of various places so named with Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + mōr ‘moor’, ‘marsh’ or mere ‘lake’. Mōr is the second element of places called Blackmore in Essex, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, as well as Blackmoor in Dorset; mere, on the other hand, is the second element of Blackmore in Hertfordshire and Blackmoor in Hampshire, the early forms of which are Blachemere, Blakemere.